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[quote=Anonymous]Former RH parent.  I was not happy with the teaching overall there.  Perhaps one good teacher in 3 years.  I was often in the classroom.  "Play-based learning" consisted of kids being told to rotate among "learning centers" by a system of groups for 15 minutes while the teacher gave "reading group" to a small group of children.  Basically, all kids got one small group lesson of 15 minutes or less in reading a day and the rest of the time they spent goofing off in the "learning centers".  An example of learning center might be using stamps to copy "spelling words" from a weekly list.  Self-directed children might do and gain something from this, but most kids were just playing and not learning.

Lots of worksheets.  Lots of cutting, pasting and coloring of very mundane worksheets.

Math was a little better, with lessons like picking items out of a treasure chest to learn probability or charting.  But, still not really play-based learning.

Recess is kind of chaotic there, and that's the only activity besides PE once a week.

In retrospect, I think RH is not a great lower school.  Perhaps better than other publics, but still not great.

We have been out a few years, so I don't know if much has changed with a new principal.  But, a principal can only do so much if the teachers and the curriculum are the same.  I really don't see an improvement under curriculum 2.0 in either reading or math.  Assessments are much more opaque and don't really capture true skills mastery IMO.   [/quote]

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